I do find it somewhat surprising, and I'll tell you why. Unlike the scenario where MS is donating to CC or Apache, here they're asking free culture members to *blog* about MS software, which generally goes counter to the philosophy of free culture in its proprietary nature. But hey, maybe they'd be happy to hear what we have to say. ;)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Rich Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:miserlou@gmail.com">miserlou@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
@Rob - the email address is attached in the original email - send them<br>
an email if you're willing to give it a shot. I'd be really really<br>
interested in what they're trying to pull.<br>
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R<br>
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Fred Benenson <<a href="mailto:fred.benenson@gmail.com">fred.benenson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Nothing is surprising about it to me, hence my careful wording.<br>
><br>
> ~ ~ ~<br>
> thoughts / <a href="http://fredbenenson.com/blog" target="_blank">http://fredbenenson.com/blog</a><br>
> work / <a href="http://kickstarter.com" target="_blank">http://kickstarter.com</a><br>
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> status / <a href="http://twitter.com/mecredis" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mecredis</a><br>
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> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Rob Myers <<a href="mailto:rob@robmyers.org">rob@robmyers.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On 20/01/10 21:07, Fred Benenson wrote:<br>
>> > As surprising as it might seem, Microsoft also supports Creative<br>
>> > Commons:<br>
>> ><br>
>> > <a href="http://creativecommons.org/tag/microsoft" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/tag/microsoft</a><br>
>> ><br>
>><br>
>> What is surprising about that? They give money to the Apache Foundation<br>
>> as well. Anything that doesn't threaten their interests. Microsoft are a<br>
>> proprietary software company. Neither CC nor permissive licensing<br>
>> threatens their ability to remove people's freedom to use software.<br>
>><br>
>> But you'll notice they don't support the FSF.<br>
>><br>
>> What *would* be surprising would be if News Corp. supported CC...<br>
>><br>
>> - Rob (who gives both CC and the FSF money each month).<br>
>><br>
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